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- Oct 3, 2012
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That's the basis of EVERY religion. Every religion that I know of anyway. (and I'm not saying I'm all knowing) They pretty much all teach their followers to have faith in their teachings, and that any other belief is false.
Respectfully, I that is much too generalized. Some may argue the difference between a religion and a philosophy , but I don't intend to go down that rabbit hole and think it's something of a semantics argument that's really tough to get any conclusion on. The exclusionary idea of religion has ebbed and flowed over human history but is not universal by any means in place and time and the idea that "all paths lead up the mountain" is represented quite well on a wider timeline.
As an example, Mohammed originally did not allow Christians or Jews to convert to Islam. Only pagans were to be converted, as Christians and Jews already believed in the same God and if they were Jews God wanted them to be Jews, if they were Christians God wanted them to be Christians, etc. Early Protestants and Muslims were sometimes more similar than Protestants and Catholics, as rejection of the trinity was a hot topic for them both. Wahabi Islam would strongly disagree with that idea today. Sufi Islam would be much more inline with it.
It is sometimes too easy to present any religion as monolithic, but some version of "Unitarianism" tends to exist in any of them. Sometimes as a minority, of course, but it's usually there in some capacity.